[1] Its three founders are Jeong Kim, an engineer and former president of Bell Labs; Wim Sweldens, a scientist and innovator in communications and signal processing who had been at Alcatel-Lucent; and Jimmy Lynn, former sports executive with AOL and professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

[4][5] Kiswe launched an app for the mixed martial arts promotion Professional Fighters League (PFL) in 2019, similarly integrating streams of events with real-time statistics, interactive polls, trivia, and prediction games, and the ability to create public and private lobbies with chat rooms.

PFL CEO Pete Murray stated that the app was designed to also facilitate sports betting features in the future.

[9][7] Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kiswe branched out into virtual concerts in 2020;[10][11] on June 8, 2020, Kiswe announced a strategic "global partnership" with K-pop record label Big Hit Entertainment,[12][13] with its first event being the BTS virtual concert Bang Bang Con: The Live.

The event took in US$18.1 million in revenue, with Kiswe and Big Hit reporting a peak of over 756,000 concurrent viewers in 107 territories.